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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>John 15 Bishops' Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/15.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/15-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Bishops'</a> > John 15</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/14.htm" title="John 14">◄</a> John 15 <a href="../john/16.htm" title="John 16">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Bishops' Bible of 1568</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/15-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus the True Vine<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../isaiah/27.htm">Isaiah 27:1–13</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Euery braunche that beareth not fruite in me, he will take away: And euery braunche that beareth fruite wyll he pourge, that it may bryng foorth more fruite. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Nowe are ye cleane through the worde which I haue spoken vnto you. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Byde in me, and I in you. As the braunche can not beare fruite of it selfe, except it byde in the vine: no more can ye, except ye abyde in me. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I am the vine, ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me, and I in hym, the same bryngeth foorth much fruite: For without me can ye do nothyng. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Yf a man byde not in me, he is cast foorth as a braunch, and withereth, and men gather them, and cast them into the fyre, and they burne. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Yf ye byde in me, and my wordes abyde in you, aske what ye wyll, and it shalbe done for you. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Herein is my father glorified: that ye beare much fruite, and become my disciples. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">No Greater Love<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As the father hath loued me, euen so haue I loued you: Continue ye in my loue. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Yf ye kepe my commaundementes, ye shall abyde in my loue, euen as I haue kept my fathers commaundementes, and abyde in his loue. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>These thynges haue I spoken vnto you, that my ioy might remayne in you, and that your ioy myght be full.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>This is my commaundement, that ye loue together, as I haue loued you.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Greater loue hath no man, then this: yt a man bestowe his life for his frendes. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ye are my frendes, yf ye do whatsoeuer I commaunde you. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hencefoorth call I you not seruautes: for the seruaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you haue I called frendes, for all thynges that I haue hearde of my father, haue I made knowen to you. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordayned you, to go, and bryng foorth fruite, and that your fruite shoulde remayne, that whatsoeuer ye aske of the father in my name, he may geue it you. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>This commaunde I you, that ye loue together.<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">The Hatred of the World<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Yf the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before it hated you. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If ye were of the worlde, the worlde would loue his owne: Howbeit, because ye are not of the worlde, but I haue chosen you out of the worlde: therfore the worlde hateth you. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Remember the worde that I sayde vnto you: the seruaunt is not greater then the Lorde. If they haue persecuted me, they wyll also persecute you. If they haue kept my saying, they wyll kepe yours also. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But all these thynges wyll they do vnto you for my names sake, because they haue not knowe hym that sent me. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yf I had not come and spoken vnto them, they shoulde haue had no sinne: but nowe haue they nothyng to cloke their sinne withall. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>He that hateth me, hateth my father also. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Yf I had not done among them, the workes which none other man dyd, they shoulde haue had no sinne. But nowe haue they both seene, and hated not only me, but also my father, <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But <FI>this commeth to passe,<Fi> that the worde myght be fulfylled, that is written in their lawe: They hated me without a cause.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But when the comforter is come, whom I wyl sende vnto you from the father, euen the spirite of trueth, which proceadeth of the father, he shall testifie of me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/15-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And ye shall beare witnesse also, because ye haue ben with me from the begynnyng.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/14.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 14"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 14" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/16.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 16"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 16" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>